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Health Policy Institute Focus
Areas:
Healthcare
Optimizing healthcare access and quality.
Partnerships
Healthcare Links
Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC).
BPHC’S
mission is to increase access to comprehensive primary and
preventive health care and to improve the health status of
underserved and vulnerable populations.
Center for Health Outcomes
and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania.
Established in 1989, the Center is a research and research training
enterprise focusing on the outcomes of health care and health
workforce policy. The Center’s researchers study health system
reorganization and policy changes and aim to produce research
evidence to improve the quality of health care.
Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead
Federal agency charged with improving the quality, safety,
efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. As
one of 12 agencies within the Department of Health and Human
Services, AHRQ supports health services research that will improve
the quality of health care and promote evidence-based decision
making.
The site contains news, data, surveys, research findings, and
information about specific populations i.e. Women, children and
minorities.
National Quality Forum.
A private, not-for-profit membership organization created to develop and
implement a national strategy for healthcare quality measurement and
reporting. The mission of the NQF is to improve American healthcare
through endorsement of consensus-based national standards for
measurement and public reporting of healthcare performance data that
provide meaningful information about whether care is safe, timely,
beneficial, patient-centered, equitable and efficient. The site
contains project summaries, new on current issues and activities and
a newsletter titled “Quality Healthcare, Now!”.
Studies, Presentations, and Papers
 Medicaid
Responsiveness, Health Coverage, and Economic Resilience: A
preliminary Analysis
by
Stan Dorn, the Economic and Social Research institute
Barbara Markham Smith, Health Policy Innovation, Inc.
Bowen Garrett, The Urban institute
September 27, 2005
Press Releases
Future
Economic Recessions Will Be More Severe If Medicaid Caps Are
Adopted, Expert Warns
July 6, 2005
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